ELA Instructors Come Together for Course Enhancement – Lorna Malanik

I am thrilled to announce that under the leadership of Lusine Harutyunyan, Acting Media Lead for Curriculum Development, the English Language Arts instructors across all modes of delivery (RTOL, ATOL, Trad, and Flex) are working together on a Video Curation Project. The purpose of the project is to gather instructional videos to enhance student learning in an engaging, concise, and precise format. The videos will focus on a wide variety of topics at each high school grade level which relate to the analysis and deeper appreciation of texts and the writer’s craft. Upon completion of the project, instructors and students alike will have an abundance of relevant resources from which to draw. Using YouTube as our primary resources, we are hoping to find videos for all of our 50-ish topics for each of the three levels (grades 10, 11, and 12) by the end of October, 2013. Our next step will be to discern which topics do not have appropriate videos and then work on the creation of our own instructional videos so that all topics have video resources that are applicable to each grade level. It is exciting to have ELA instructors of all modes of delivery work together on this project; not only will this enrich student learning, it will strengthen our relationships with each other and ultimately lead to further collaboration.